[…] the Constitution “demonstrate as visibly the finger of providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.” While not referenced as such, the statement is from a May […]
Criticizing the publication of William A. Wilson’s 18 November 1981 Honor Lecture in the Humanities would be equivalent to rudely refusing to applaud a virtuoso folklore performance. Although claiming to play the role of […]
[…] suggested, instead, that any credible historical treatment of the Mormon prophet must take him as a whole human being and see him in all his complexity as a “harmonious human multitude,” as Carl Van […]
[…] wondered what his old classmates would call him now. Camouflaged from head-to-toe, he looked more like a human salad than a would-be Nimrod. A muddy trail snaked through a meadow of knee-high grass, rising […]
[…] of love and hostility toward the therapist. Freud elaborated a series of hypotheses into a theory of human personality. His hypotheses were based upon clinical observations described in terms of conceptual schema. He also […]
[…] Unfortunately, we cannot provide the answers to those questions. It is possible to remove cells from a human being and to keep them alive indefinitely—long after the donor has died. Organs of a dead […]
What is this human intimacy, this condition that human beings seek “at every stage of life .. . as urgently as we seek food and drink . . . this need so powerful that […]
[…] came to grips with what pacifism requires of its adherents. I found the prospect of killing other human beings so offensive that I was prepared to go to Canada, if necessary, to avoid the […]
[…] role in the lives of Latter-day Saints by being able to create a point of intersection between human desires for righteousness and the divine willingness to be bound by covenant. This point has remained […]
[…] Mother God. The dream made me realize that one reason I could not accept a mother figure, human or divine, was because I had not allowed myself to fully feel or admit all of […]